The hoax message claimed to be from one "David D. In fact, a report by PC Advisor had pointed out how WhatsApp users got a chain-letter hoax message after the app was acquired by Facebook. Very often gullible users tend to fall for such scams and might even go on to add such a person on WhatsApp, which is dangerous as this person could try and get personal information such as bank account details, email passwords by trying to be friends them. Using pictures of women and sending spam links on social media is a fairly tried and tested method of ensuring chaos on the Internet. Again the contact number was from an unknown international number. Another spam profile shared with us was of one Pooja. The Diya business card has a picture of an Indian girl on it, but if you look at the number it's definitely not an Indian one.Īnd it's not just 'Diya' who is used to send spam messages. While the name of the contact was 'Diya', followed by a picture of a woman, when we checked the number on the TrueCaller app, the number belongs to a Soniya Soniya in Ivory Coast. In one such case, one of our team members got a message from an unknown number, along with a business card. Spam messages on WhatsApp are rising daily it would appear.
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